Movies: Abbas Rahmy

This film, inspired by Naguib Mahfouz' The thief and the dogs, tells the story of Mahran, a thief who quickly ascends to be the head of his gang. However, his second in command conspires against Mahran to take his position and his wife. After his pri...

A Man in Our House is a 1961 Egyptian film about the resistance to British rule in Egypt which ended in the exile of King Farouk in 1954 and the rise to power of Gamal Abdel Nasser....

A career-focused journalist crosses paths with Noura, a good-hearted young woman who suffers from societal pressures and issues. As Mahmoud tries to save her from going down a path of sin, he learns the story of her family and her struggle to provide...

This magnificently madcap comedy classic stars Egyptian film legends Tahiya Karioka and Emad Hamdi as Zeinab and Hussein, overworked parents who get little relief from the never ending demands of their seven mischievous children. When their eldest da...

Samir marries Nabila and they live with her mother. Samir’s mother arrives and a quarrel begins, and both mothers-in-law ignite war in the house, which becomes an unbearable hell due to the many quarrels. Samir is guided to marry his mother-in-law an...

Mohamed Fathy rents a new apartment facing the palace of Taher Pasha, Nadia's father. A misunderstanding occurs between Fathy and Nadia, and he discovers that she is the niece of his boss at the Bank of Egypt. As soon as Nadia complains to him, he de...

The real version of the famous US hit movie "Love Story" remade in 1971, but with a swap of roles and happier ending....

Amal, a tour guide in Cairo, doesn’t want to get married after witnessing her mother’s divorce, and has decided that all men are no good. With high hopes, she goes to visit the Aswan High Dam where a tourism delegation is. In a chance encounter, she ...

After the ambassador travels abroad, the servant takes advantage of this opportunity and impersonates him....

Rabi'a al-Adawiyya is a classic film from 1963 based on the life of the early Sufi saint and poet Rabi'a al-Adawiyya, also known as Rabi'a al Basri, in the second Islamic century....

On the wedding night of the girl he raised, the singer (Wahid) recalls memories of his love for her mother, whom he loved at the beginning of his life and wanted to marry, but her father refused because of the social difference between them, and afte...

The story of a family torn apart; the son goes to prison instead of his father for drug trafficking. While the other son marries a bad- tempered woman who abuses her mother-in-law forcing her to flee to work as a maid at a hospital....

Gharbawi Bey, owner of a fishing fleet in the Abi Qir area of Alexandria, is in fact a smuggler who is monitored by the detective and recruited for him by the only officer who disguises himself as Dr. Fathi, trying to get close to Leila, the smuggler...

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Awatif's mother works as the head of a women's association to help the poor. Awatif accidentally finds a letter that shows that she had an illegitimate brother from her mother before she married her father...

As a result of Saleh's preoccupation with his work, his wife Aida suffers from loneliness. She turns to watching films and starts impersonating the characters of the heroines she sees in the films, which gets her husband into many troubles and with t...

The film takes place in a social drama framework, where (Nabila) works as a teacher in Cairo, and on her first day of work she quarrels with (Hoda), the spoiled and stubborn daughter of the former minister because of the death of her mother when she ...

A man who is struggling with life's daily problems, especially his troublesome wife, accidentally runs into a man who makes bills that change human behavior, and his life changes....

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Ahmed and Fadel are two brothers, one is a lawyer and the other works to collect money by all means, but he discovers too late that money is useless, and that it is indeed a door to many corruptions and temptations....